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The wreck of the steamship "San Francisco": disabled on her voyage from New York to San Francisco [California], Dec[ember] 24th, 1853 and in a sinking condition

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Title: The wreck of the steamship "San Francisco": disabled on her voyage from New York to San Francisco [California], Dec[ember] 24th, 1853 and in a sinking condition
Creator: Butterworth, J. E. (active ca. 1853-ca. 1854), artist Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888), American, lithographer and publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: c1854
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Wreck of sidewheel steamship engulfed in water in center; passengers escaping rowboats; "Antarctic" ship and "Three Bells" ship near by take on survivors.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Paint. by F.E. Butterwoth; (LC, above title): Entered... 1854 by N. Currier... N[ew] Y[ork]; (LC, below title): New York, published by N. Currier, 152 Nassau Street; (LR): Lith. by N. Currier.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 57.5 x 80.3 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf5t1nb6gq
BANC PIC 1963.002:0347--D
Subject: Events
Vessels

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